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Newspaper

Ames Intelligencer

Location

Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 10, 1900

Page

8

Various patent medicines and quack claims flood ad filled column

A jumble of testimonials and promotional snippets praises Minute Cough Cure Fonny's Honey and Tar Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and Foucy's Kidney Cure. Warnings on pneumonia follow lagrippe and quips about money power appear beside observations on kidneys and purifying the blood.

Major Crofoot hires canvasser in dietary sausage scam

A hungry con artist, Major Crofoot, entices a Life of Napoleon canvasser with promises of stock, salaries, and a $5 million dietary sausage empire. The schemer uses grand talk of future profits, factory plans, and nationwide sales to squeeze a dollar from the man, who leaves empty handed.

Great American Dietary Sausage Company Napoleon Crofoot

Unable to Work. Chas Replogle Atwater Ohio

Chas Replogle of Atwater Ohio could not work due to kidney trouble. After using Fourys Kinney Cure four ways he recovered completely. Titpen and LOUGHRAN.

Chas Replogle Atwater. O Foury Kinney Titpen & Loughran

Abandoning Theories When Evidence Demands It

A college president loses his manuscript in a house fire and later praises the disaster as fortune for proving his conclusions wrong. Andrew Lang recounts geologists who admit a field observation toppled a theory after a stone rolled down hill 209 feet too high.

New York Andrew Lang Longman's Magazine

Fielding Name Spelling Anecdote Cited by Denbigh

The San Francisco Argonaut recalls Henry Fielding’s reply to Lord Denbigh about spelling his surname Fielding. He jokes that his branch was the first to learn how to spell. The note then adds general claims about arm strength by gender and the nutrition of peas and beans compared to wheat.

Henry Fielding Denbigh Fielding Fellding San Francisco

Greenland Dreams and Disease in Dry Cold Air

A terse note asserts all men believe in dreams while asleep and claims infectious diseases are negligible in Greenland due to its dry cold atmosphere. The passage mixes speculative ideas about mind and climate driven health effects with a generalized view of Greenlandic conditions.

Greenland

Banner Salve Cures Yearlong Sore for Willseyville Man

Henry H. Richards of Willseyville New York says a persistent breast sore lasting over a year healed after using half a box of Banner Salve. He urges others to try it and says he will never be without it in his home.

Henry H. Richards Willseyville N. Y

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